The weight Widows drags from the past is becoming a drag for everyone.

PCWorld demonstrates how Windows 11 users can run classic PC games from the 80s and 90s using DOSBox, a free emulator that simulates MS-DOS environments. DOSBox supports vintage titles like ...

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Last time, I ran Windows 98SE on DOSBox-X to play 16-bit Windows games. This time, I would like to try running PC-9801 DOS games on DOSBox-X. Creating a PC-9801 environment is easy. Since DOSBox-X has ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. If you grew up playing PC games on DOS and operating systems like Windows 95 and Windows 98, then here's an early present for the holiday season - eXoWin9x ...

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James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

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In brief: It's now possible to run a barebones version of Discord on legacy Microsoft operating systems including Windows 98 (and even Windows 95, if you're willing to jump through a few extra hoops).

Minecraft, one of the most popular games of all time, still continues to be played by fans today in various ways. The news that came to light today is about a developer on Reddit who managed to adapt ...

In brief: A group of artificial intelligence researchers has demonstrated running a powerful AI language model on a Windows 98 machine. And we're not talking about just any old PC, but a vintage ...

Wing Commander & WC2 are notoriously difficult to make playable on modern systems because it doesn't have any built-in speed limiting - it just runs as fast as possible. That was fine when it was ...